- The Washington Metro Area Transit Authority has installed two prototype fare gates at a stop on its Red Line route.
- One model has plexiglass half circles atop the gates, the spot where jumpers plant their hands to hurdle over the electronic turnstiles.
- “There is never a perfect gate,” WMATA General Manager Randy Clarke said Thursday. “If we want to have a gate that (prevents all) fare evasion, that’s called a wall and we will never run service.”
- The agency having lost an estimated $40 million in fares between July 2021 to June 2022 from fare evasion.